It is incomprehensible
a more diligent approach is not being pursued by the United States
of American Cricket Association (USACA) to have the International
Cricket Council’s (ICC) ban on this country lifted any time
soon.

There are deadlines
to be met for the enactment of the new constitution and the staging
of the executive elections, if not completed on time, will see us
doomed in the doldrums for heaven knows how much longer.

November 30 is
the deadline set for the completion of everything, but from all appearances,
USACA is moving in slow motion.

We are at the
end of September but the constitution document is not yet close to
any sort of ratification by the 300-odd clubs spread across America.

The latest information
indicates that an adjustment for the umpteenth time is about to be
competed for perusal by the review committee, which reworked the original
document.

Why all this unwanted
delay had to occur only USACA knows. The national body bullied its
way to have this time wasting review when all adjustments could’ve
been completed when the three man committee was presented with the
reworked document more than a month ago.

It is clear that
the current administration never intended to accept the work of the
review committee and was only playing along when its President Gladstone
Dainty and the Reconciliation Committee representative John Aaron
met with the West Indies Cricket Board team, mandated to supervise
the election process by the ICC, on those two occasions.

Why else would
USACA want more time to make additional changes to the document in
addition to the ones discussed at the Miami meeting last month?
One could only conclude that USACA wants to hoodwink the clubs by
rushing through the document at the last minute, at which time its
members are expected to give in, without making any objections, for
the sake of having us play international cricket soon again.

But this strategy
might backfire because the said last minute rush cost us the entire
2007 of exposure for our players after USACA failed to meet the original
March 1 election deadline that led to the current ban.

Why the USACA
executive wants to run the risk of another such failed operation is
mind boggling. That is unless they do not care about a never-ending
ban if the current executive is not returned to office.

This is a reprehensible
state of affairs.

You get the impression
there is a suffocating phobia pervading the Dainty administration
because of this intense desire to make whole sale changes to the constitution
document for it to be scripted a certain way, and use valuable time
in the process.
Which is disappointing because the review committee which re-worked
it comprised five neutral professionals and not a bunch of power hungry
Californians.

The entire country
knows the biggest threat the USACA administration faces, emanates
from that western Region

And if the elections
boil down to an East versus West fight, the former should win under
any circumstance or via any constitution.